PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five, your daily look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s news includes coverage of how a company beat Amazon to the punch, and a new batch of worries for Tesla. PNC Loops Treasurers Into Real-Time Payments. Cashierless Challenger Zippin Debuts i n San Francisco.

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MAY 29, 2018

Collectively, they now drive $130 billion in mobile commerce sales. That increase in mobile commerce spending is underpinning a shift in consumers’ shopping preferences. Mastercard , for one, wants to provide users in Russia with a new way to pay. Around the Omni Developer World.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. As well, there is news about a potential replacement for malls, a new direction for Chipotle and some pessimistic findings from the world of entrepreneurs. Walmart Launches eBook Service t o Take o n Amazon.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

News came at the end of the week that the FBI and the New York State Department of Labor are investigating allegations that MyPayrollHR , which abruptly shut down earlier in the month, diverted millions of dollars into its coffers that should have gone to employees. New Report: How Consumers Use Connected Devices to Shop and Pay.

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APRIL 1, 2019

To serve a wide range of consumers in the digital age, innovators are rolling out subscription offerings ranging from news content to gaming. Some providers are capitalizing on the concept by launching new services that offer access to premium content such as newspapers and magazines in exchange for a monthly fee.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Sometimes innovation in the commerce and payments space is a matter of a new technology or a new process. As recent news from the fulfillment world demonstrates, sometimes the Big New Thing is merely an extra floor or two in a warehouse. The warehouse is the first of its kind to open in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

News of the arrangement triggered a 24.1 BNPL firms like Zip earn revenue from vendor payments and late-pay fees. . Merchants of all types are racing to gain an edge to increase holiday sales and are increasingly turning to new BNPL solutions at the point of sale (POS). million of Zip’s shares at a fixed price.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest about eCommerce and payments in India, where big players are increasingly competing for revenue and the loyalty of the middle class. Tesco has been working on new initiatives to boost sales.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

And new figures regarding Amazon TV could help shed at least a bit of new light on that larger and developing situation. This news comes not only amid ongoing and anticipated changes in the world of streaming, but also as consumers’ homes become a bigger center of commerce, entertainment and payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

While there was no shortage of goings on this week, the eyes and ears of the payments, commerce and finance enthusiasts were more likely trained on the goings on in a bucolic Swiss mountaintop city named Davos. That was a lot of big news and potential out there this week. Back on U.S. percent for 2020. percent and 3.3

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

And that will stand as one of the top trends in the new decade, at least according to researchers and other observers. As in so many things in payments and commerce, Amazon is among the leaders here. Emotional responses are particularly relevant to skills in the gaming and sports categories. Voice Trends and Growth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2018

Recent moves from PayPal and Target have brought fresh attention to the use of augmented reality (AR) to boost commerce and payments. The revival this spring of PayPal’s patent for payment-enabled augmented reality glasses has some analysts wondering how close the technology is moving toward the mainstream.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

And the 60-year-olds will be telling the world that 60 is the new 30. The influence of the increasingly connected consumer , including the highly influential bridge millennials who have already embraced many new connected commerce experiences, will have a profound impact on how consumers buy and pay for things over those 20 years.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Welcome to the Five at Five your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Also, Flywire raises $100 million and Venmo books more than $14 billion in payments during the quarter. Walmart has expanded its assortment of baby items to about 30,000 and has seen a 40 percent jump in searches for the category.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

News has emerged, via Bloomberg , that Singapore-based automotive subscription operation Carro has gained the top automotive investment banker for HSBC in Asia as the company’s new chief financial officer. The new Carro hiring also comes amid more growth for automotive subscription services. Subscription Growth.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

This category essentially invented a “mobile” food concept before drive-thrus (never mind smartphones) were ubiquitous. Rather than slow their roll, such stores are testing and learning with new concepts and offering the best of both worlds. Did these savvy operators imagine that the tech disintermediation scene hadn’t noticed them?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2019

In this new edition of the PYMNTS Weekender you can read the news and topics and research that are making waves as Labor Day approaches. Learn about new approaches to fighting fraud, debit cards for kids, the world that Netflix created and is now in danger of losing, and other topics. The Commerce Magic of National Dog Day.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The name of the game in commerce — domestic, cross-border, whatever — is given consumers as many options to pay as pragmatically possible. In a new PYMNTS discussion with Karen Webster, Ben Volk, head of global payment acceptance at Amazon , talks about why that means giving people more freedom to pay with cash, including in the U.S.

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MARCH 17, 2017

And it was in the spirit of Festivus that Alexander met the crowd at Fenway last night — ready, willing and more than able to begin a good-natured airing of the grievances about payments, commerce and the Innovation Project as a whole. I can’t imagine “commerce” having a terribly different outcome. Not much of a chat.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The win comes as instant payments and expanded remittance options gain more prominence in the world of payments and commerce. Of those 80 teams, 47 used Visa APIs in their entries, the payment card network said. In other hackathon news, another top team that used Visa technology was Bank of America.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

Now, Drouart told Webster, there’s a sharpened focus on what’s relevant to drive higher conversions, particularly for shoppers who choose to conduct commerce outside their domestic market. It’s a focus that’s different from what payments enthusiasts once thought it should be. Prioritizing Payment Choice. Why Less Is More.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Here are the 2019 payment trends that made the biggest splash, and promise to make even bigger splashes in the new decade. #1: Voice is the killer app of the connected commerce experience, according to the How We Will Pay: 2019 Edition study. As in so many things with payments and commerce, Amazon is among the leaders here.

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MAY 22, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five , your late look at the payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today’s stories take a closer look at JCPenney losing its CEO to Lowe’s, a new Chase card that focuses on small business owners and Comcast’s data security problem. Additionally, U.K.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

In 2017 Amazon rolled out its direct rewards program for developers whose apps lead in certain categories on the platform in terms of customer engagement, usage, visits, new customers and ratings. Last spring, however, Amazon announced two new additions intended to make it easier to make money programming skills for Alexa.

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JULY 7, 2018

But why let one big add overshadow the many significant pickups in our favorite sport — as well as payments and commerce? Amazon Go added a new store, Lyft added bikes, Bixby added sports, consumers added more personal debt to their already heaping piles, and the U.S. Last week almost dazzled with big adds. Amazon Go 2.0

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

A sizzle in its own right – and also possibly a sizzle within a sizzle for payments and commerce players who may stand to see their boats lifted by wearables’ rising tide. It was a good week for wearables and their future, as the devices continued to show indications of strong promise on the B2C and B2B fronts.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

The 2018 holiday shopping season is also providing encouraging news for the ongoing development of the Internet of Things — and Amazon’s role in in that growing ecosystem. Over the last four years, retail sales have shifted to Amazon in key categories that were once the domain of the physical store. adult population. That’s up from 1.6

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Vitalik Buterin

JULY 21, 2020

This time around, we had three categories: the two usual categories of "tech" and "community" (the latter renamed from "media" to reflect a desire for a broad emphasis), and the round-6-special category Crypto For Black Lives. In the last round, one concern I raised was stability of income.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

There was no shortage of news in payments and commerce this week, but perhaps the biggest news that didn’t make a headline was that this week marks the first full business week of a second half to what’s already been an incredible year. So, the impact could be quite a bit greater [in the third quarter] than in Q2.”.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

That’s creating new competition for grocery stores, which provide the raw ingredients needed to cook at-home meals, and is good news for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), delivery services and other companies offering the easy-to-make, nutritious meals consumers crave. The split has since only grown wider, however.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

But the store’s selection will differ from traditional retail stores that carry multiple choices for, say, lipstick: It will only offer one product per category and that option will come with the magazine’s famous seal of approval. Other Brick-And-Mortar-News. Earlier this year, Amazon launched its first Amazon Go store in Seattle.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

We broke down our list of Indonesia tech startups into 10 categories, listed below. Marketplace — E-commerce and marketplace startups are some of Indonesia’s most highly funded private companies, particularly when it comes to multi-product or e-commerce marketplaces like Tokopedia, which has raised a total of $1.4B

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2017

PayPal has spent much of the last year creating partnerships with many of the world’s more luminary players in the payments and commerce space, Apple, Samsung, Visa, Mastercard, Chase and Android is the abbreviated version of that list, as it executes on its post-IPO mission to build the global operating system for digital commerce.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Some of the changes were pretty easily predicted – once the world of physical commerce was shut down by statute, one might have sensibly forecast that the race would go to the players who mostly swiftly pivoted to digital. PayPal’s Global Push. in August, and Pay in 3 in the U.K. earlier this month. “We launch of Pay in 4.

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APRIL 27, 2016

With increasingly more global connections and advancing technology to support them, consumers around the world expect to be able to access digital commerce solutions quickly, easily and conveniently. Samsung, meanwhile, announced it would bring its mobile payment platform to China. Picturing Perfect Payments. About The Tracker.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

For many in payments and the vast ecosystem that it powers, the scariest thing about Oct. The 2019 planning sessions that will mark the next 60 days will no doubt include topics of conversation about the scariest things in payments that could knock key players off their game – or turn their plans upside down.

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MAY 24, 2017

Perhaps inspired by projections that mobile wallets could be worth $2 billion by the end of 2017, several companies recently made new or expanded investments into bringing mobile payment technology to more consumers around the globe. Apple, for one, may be bringing a mobile P2P payments platform to iPhone and iPad.

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